Community Fundraising Manager

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join and lead our Community Fundraising team. We’re looking for a strategic thinker with strong leadership skills and a proven track record of delivering against fundraising targets.

You’ll lead the creation and delivery of the community fundraising strategy to generate and increase income through a variety of community income streams and volunteer networks, use data and insight to inform decision making, resource planning and performance monitoring and create a forward thinking, engaged team driven for success.

As part of the Senior Leadership team in Fundraising you’ll collaborate with other teams such as Legacies, Individual Giving and Events and play an integral role in creating a high performing fundraising team., * Leadership and management of the Community Fundraising team across a national landscape.

• Creation and delivery of the Community Fundraising Strategy.

• Delivery of all programmes of work through community fundraising including the development of the regional corporate strategy and Business Development Manager team.

• Income growth through delivery of strategy across income streams including recruitment, stewardship and retention.

• Create and nurture an engaged volunteer network to support the team across the country.

• Delivery of agreed income targets and associated reporting requirements.

• Using data and insight to support decision making, resource planning and monitoring.

• Create a forward thinking team engaged with the strategic goals of the organisation and driven for success.

• Develop a culture of collaboration with other fundraising teams and importantly with the wider organisation to maximise opportunity., In addition to specific compliance requirements within your area of expertise, you also hold responsibility in your specialism for:

• Health & Safety and Environment

• Safeguarding

• Data Protection

• Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

• Quality

You are expected and encouraged to raise and escalate appropriately any potential breaches or areas for improvement regarding the above.

The role is subject to a Basic DBS check.

Environment

TAAS is an inclusive working environment where Equality, Diversity and Human Rights are guiding principles, individuals are respected and a value of having a diverse workforce is recognised. The recruitment, employment and development of people are based on qualifications, experience and competency to do the job, eliminating personal bias or prejudice.

As an organisation, TAAS are committed to ensuring the safety and welfare of children and vulnerable adults involved in any of our activities. Our commitment applies to all acting on our behalf, i.e., employees, contractors, volunteers, supporters, patient, donors and visitors, meaning that all have a responsibility towards safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults with whom they have contact with. Any new staff starting with the organisation will need to be committed to Safeguarding, complete relevant Safeguarding training and report any concerns they may have. TAAS operate a safer recruitment process, as part of our Safeguarding policy, which includes identifying and rejecting anyone who may be a risk to vulnerable people.

• Please note that we reserve the right to close this before the stated date, should the hiring manager deem there to be enough suitable applicants.

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• Experience of leading a community fundraising team including corporate income.

• Experience of creating a community fundraising strategy and delivering against this.

• Proven experience of delivering against income targets and non-financial KPIs.

• Experience of reporting against financial and non-financial targets and KPIs including forecasting.

• Experience of pipelining and proactive approaches to corporates and community organisations and supporters.

• Experience of recruiting new volunteers and volunteer groups.

• Experience of supporter and volunteer stewardship and journeys.

• Organised with the ability to prioritise and manage tasks with an attention to detail to ensue nothing is missed.

• Demonstrable evidence of behaviour in line with the core values of The Air Ambulance Service throughout career to date.

• Collaborative approach to achieving departmental and wider organisational objectives.

• A passion for the work The Air Ambulance Service does.

• A flexible approach to allow adaptability to the changing needs of the organisation.

The Air Ambulance Service

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Full-time